Yesterday, on December 23, Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) announced that their upcoming and highly anticipated space sims Star Citizen and Squadron 42 will use the Amazon Lumberyard engine. Amazon’s game engine, Lumberyard, is an impressive free AAA engine that not only allows game designers to design incredibly detailed 3D games (as shown by the immaculate screen shots of both games ...
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DLC and microtransactions: have they become predatory, or is it all in good fun?
As yet another year reaches its conclusion, it’s only natural for one to look back and marvel at how far gaming has come. From the early days of Pong, to the modern era of online multiplayer, to the glimpses of the future where VR and AR headsets might have a place in the living room, gaming has come a long ...
Read More »Video Shows How Star Citizen intends to Use Motion Capture
Motion capture will help to create more realistic worlds and characters in Star Citizen, and will even help explore how aliens will behave.
Read More »Star Citizen will allow you to have your very own space pet
Star Citizen has already reached $63 million in funding and is now rapidly cruising towards the $64 million milestone. We’be already talked enough about how this is the most successful crowdfunded project ever and we also talked quite a bit about what you can expect to find in the game, so we’re not going to discuss these aspects again, for ...
Read More »Star Citizen – Q&A With Tony Zurovec
Star Citizen, many things come to mind when the name of the game is brought up. It has one of the biggest crowd funding success stories as of now. With a lot of hype and a lot of announcements, Star Citizen is sure to be a game that many gamers will grab and remember for some time. We got a ...
Read More »Star Citizen will natively support 4K and 8K UHD resolutions, consoles left out
Star Citizen, the massive space sim from Cloud Imperium Games has made a habit of standing in the limelight of the gaming world for quite some time now. Wing commander, Chris Roberts shared in a one hour chat with TweakTown that Star Citizen will natively support 4K and 8K UHD resolutions thanks to the PC exclusive approach which allows developers ...
Read More »Star Citizen is rapidly approaching the $60 million milestone
Star Citizen, the most successful crowdfunded project of all time is still going as strong as ever. The game just reached a jaw-dropping $59 million and will undoubtedly reach the $60 million milestone sometime next month. As impressive as that sounds, it’s even more amazing when you take into consideration the fact that all this money was raised by gamers in ...
Read More »Star Citizen will feature a complex FPS module with realistic mechanics
While Star Citizen is still years away from being fully playable, backers of the ambitious project can already experience the game’s Hangar and Arena Commander modules. The next module is scheduled to be released in early 2015 and will allow for FPS gameplay. During a recent AMA on Reddit, the Star Citizen team talked a bit about this module and revealed some ...
Read More »Star Citizen makes Guinness World Records book
Star Citizen is not even out yet and is already enjoying an incredible amount of gaming media talk. Now, Chris Roberts, the “big daddy” of Star Citizen proudly reports that the game has breached the $55 million mark in development crowdfunding, which puts Star Citizen in the Guinness Book of World Records “not as the largest crowdfunded game of all ...
Read More »Star Citizen: The Ultimate MMO
Cloud Imperium Games and Robert Space Industries are planning to bring to the table a smashing game changer with their upcoming PC title, Star Citizen. Game director, Chris Roberts claims that Star Citizen is one of the hugest MMO space simulator projects the gaming world has ever seen. His claims seem to be backed up by the millions of dollars ...
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